Improvement in gang-plows



D. c. MATTESON.

Wheel-Plow.

0 0,647. Patented June 22. 1.858.

NPETERS PNOTQUTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D C

UNITED STATES ATENT rare.

DON O. MATTESON, OFSTOOKTON, CALIFORNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN GANG-PLOWS.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DoN G. MATTESON, of the city of Stockton, county ofSan Joaquin, and State of California, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Gang-Plows; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description and operation of the same,reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming part ofthissperilition, in which Figure 1 represents a top view of the machine, andFig. 2 a side elevation of the same.

Similar characters of reference in the several figures denote the samepart.

The nature of my invention consists in a peculiar arrangement of devicesin the construction of gang-plows, hereinafter to be described.

The gang plows are constructed in the followingmanner-to wit, by threeparallel beams four by five inches, but may be larger or smaller,numbered 1, 2, and 3; two cross-bars firmly bolted to the parallelbeams, numberedd and 5. The angle which the long cross-bar, No. 5, makeswith the beams 1, 2, and 3 is sixty-five degrees, and the angle whichthe short bar, 4, makes is twenty-nine degrees and thirty minutes, andthese angles will be correct on any size plows. The three plows areattached to the three parallel beams Nos. 1, 2, and 3. The plows aretwenty-nine inches from the hind of each beam, and braced by three ironbraces, D D D, which give them great strength and firmness. Three inchesback of plowpoints is placed stationary on beams an iron upright, B, towhich is attached three revolving cutters, 0 c c.

To the front ends of parallel beams 1 and 3 are placed gage wheels andirons c a to regulate the depth the plows shall cut. The gageirons 'u vare at the lower end. One has a square hole through it to prevent theaxle W turning, the other a round hole, so as to shift it backward andforward to tit the hole in parallel beams land 3. There is a false.beam,N, four feet long, size three by four inches, or size in proportion tosize of plows, to the end of which is attached a goose-neck, G.

To the hind end of false beam N are drawirons S S, which attach itfirmly on a bolt,

P, to center of parallel beam 2. There are two standards, F F, one oneach side of parallel beam 2, firmly bolted to false beam N for thepurpose of keeping parallel beam 2 in its place, one iron standard, 2,on goose-neck G for lever i to rest on. The lever, by means of chain 1,is to throw the plows out ot'the ground, and also to gage the depth ofthe furrow, by raising or lowering and going from field to field, bymeans of a catch on awooden standard and guard, L, axle-tree a, threefeeteight inches bet-ween shoulders, with tongue y attached to the rightside, six inches from center of axle a, to the center of tongue y: Theaxle a has mortise 0, left side of tongue, one or more feet long.

The false beam N is attached by goose-neck G to the axle-tree u. Thefalse beam can be shifted to the right or left in mortise O, as may berequired, to give more or less land. The principal draft is by chain K,which is hooked into the end of goose-neck G, passing through ring underand near the point of tongue for lead animals to draw by to obviate sidedraft. The false beam N being attached to center beam, 2, on a bolt, P,gives a greater lever-purchase in gaging the plows, and also having thedraft attached to the false beam N gives a better chance to work overuneven ground. Catch L is to gage the plows and hold them out of theground by use of the lever 2, and this is done without stopping theteam, and is a great improvement on the old method, for by that inraising and lowering it was necessary to stop the team. It is necessaryby the old method in raising and lowering to put a pin in to hold it up;but by my method it can be raised instantly without stopping.

1 claim The arrangement, as describethof the false beam N, goose-neck G,axle a, lever "i, catch L, and the system of plows attached to theirframe, as set forth, the whole being constructed and. operatingsubstantially as and for the purposes specified.

DON G. MATTESON.

Witnesses: V

OTIS L. BRIDGES, JAMES COLE.

